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To: Wombat101

I think you have accepted far to much at seeming face value without thorough checking.


144 posted on 05/06/2006 11:38:36 AM PDT by Quix ( PREPARE . . . PRAY . . . PLACE your trust, hope, faith and life in God's hands moment by moment)
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To: Quix

Really? On the way to getting my Master's I read and absorbed an awful lot of Christian philosophy in it's original Greek and Latin forms (can you claim to the ability to read and comprehend Latin and Attic Greek?). Having been educated in Catholic schools for 12 years, I'm pretty sure I know what the Bible says, and what Christian theology is all about, I just can't pull a psalm or handy a quotation out of my backside on demand for you.

My problem is never with the philosophy behind Christianity. it is ALWAYS with the mythology that surrounds it and underlies the whole thing it. The philosophy on it's own has enough going for it that it does not require, in my opinion, the type of rigid enforcement and insistence on lockstep theocratic agreement that many would like to imposed upon it.

I also object to the smug stupidity of those who are convinced that they have been let in one some celestial secret because they memorized Romans,and that the rest of us are doomed to die an unspeakable death and subsequent torment because we didn't. As far as I'm concerned, God will judge me on my actions towards my fellow man, not on my ability to quote scripture or attendance at church.


147 posted on 05/06/2006 11:46:54 AM PDT by Wombat101 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
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